In other news today...
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I wonder how quickly it will be circumvented and a shadow IT crops up.
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@DogsB assuming it hasn’t already appeared, you mean. Shadow orgs exist surprisingly quickly.
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
given that Mail is somewhat of a Russian ally
I thought that was the Guardian.
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@HardwareGeek I’m certain the Daily Fail is no ally of the Graun.
But I autocorrected from Mali, to Mail it seems.
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I wonder how long we’ll have to wait for ads on all tiers.
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@DogsB and this is why we can’t have nice things because #fuckcapitalism
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@DogsB What did you get on the basic plan vs the standard one?
(I stopped my netflix subscription a while ago, but was looking at rejoining for a month or two. Guess that's not happening right now.)
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
@DogsB What did you get on the basic plan vs the standard one?
(I stopped my netflix subscription a while ago, but was looking at rejoining for a month or two. Guess that's not happening right now.)
Don’t know. might be artificially limited to 1080p/720p. Probably costs Netflix more in storage and processing than having a flatrate 4k stream for everyone.
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@Watson said in In other news today...:
Because .ml is only one keystroke away from .mil.
Anyone remembering the guy who registered
noreply.com
?
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
@DogsB What did you get on the basic plan vs the standard one?
Basic was 720 on one device at the same time. Standard is 1080 on two (IIRC).
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Science for the gun nuts among you: how to absorb supersonic bullets.
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@BernieTheBernie 4 bore has entered the chat
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My first thought was how quickly will the tictok of someone using their balls to pay going to appear.
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@HardwareGeek and the "white dwarf" is twofold racist!
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@jinpa Didn't dilbert (including archives) go offline after getting cancelled?
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@PleegWat Last I checked, everything (maybe including archives, maybe not; I didn't join) had been moved to a paywalled, subscription-only site. Nothing is available anywhere public.
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@HardwareGeek Did you ever imagine Dilbert would become harder to find than Calvin & Hobbes?
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Do not attempt at home. Conducted on a closed course by trained professionals... um, well, he gets paid for... um, sometimes... maybe?
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@jinpa said in In other news today...:
The latest Dilbert strip on my disk is from 12 March 2023.
Why did it take you so long to find out? Is electricity running slower in your part of the universe?
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Google is trying to kill the open web again:
Seriously, all you fuckers using Chome are to blame for this.
Well, it was fun while it lasted. Or, actually, not too much recently.
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@topspin just wait until ad blockers get the chop. Wait for people to rediscover the good old days.
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@Arantor And every browser is secretly chrome under the hood so every browser will be affected. Except one.
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@PleegWat still rocking the fox on my home machine.
Though we can also hope Apple chooses to ignore this bollocks because Safari isn’t beholden to the Chromium dev track and Safari is big enough a target (for now) that developers won’t leave it behind.
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@Arantor With Safari the relation is actually the other way around. Chrome is a fork of Safari. But the forks don't propagate changes. At least not automatically either way. So indeed, Apple might choose to ignore this bollocks.
And note that on iOS, all browsers are publicly Safari under the hood, because Apple policy does not permit rendering HTML with anything else than their system component.
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@Bulb Chrome was a fork that rewrote most of itself (see Webkit -> Blink) but Apple stopped pulling things in a while ago.
There are also rumours that the big bad EU is pressuring Apple to unhook iOS Safari from being the only browser render engine.
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@Dragoon Science journal isn't peer-confirmed? Shocking...
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@Dragoon in Scientific Science thread.
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
@Bulb Chrome was a fork that rewrote most of itself (see Webkit -> Blink) but Apple stopped pulling things in a while ago.
There are also rumours that the big bad EU is pressuring Apple to unhook iOS Safari from being the only browser render engine.
Also “SaFaRi Is ThE nEw IE” , because they don’t implement the latest webgl cryptomining over bluetooth or whatever the fuck APIs.
Thankfully.
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Some get by with lynx.
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@DogsB The "Things That Remind You of " thread is .
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@topspin Yeah, saw the headlines/articles/rant by Rossmann. It makes perfect sense that some people would want it. And, yes,I hate every part of it, because it will lead to a locked-down and locked-out network with mandatory video ads.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
Expect the next one soon:
I was reading the paper; it appears to be a relatively simple material to make in the lab (if you have a temperature-controlled furnace and a decent vacuum system) as it's starting materials aren't very exotic. Expect either a reproduction of the experiment or a bunch of denials that it could possibly be true soon.
It's definitely not an AI-written paper. The language use is slightly too awkward in places.
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
Btw, can someone explain to me why supraconductors are required in medical scanners? Or, well, in anything?
I get how the phenomenon of supraconduction is weird and interesting as a tool to understand (frenetic hand waving) everything!! but I never understood why it was actually useful?
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@remi not an explanation but maybe the term has become like AI has basically catch all marketing term for various decision engines or LLMs.
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@remi big, whopping electro-magnets?
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@DogsB in the science world it probably is a good way to get some money to do some funky stuff in the lab. So yeah, kind of like AI in that regard. Like fusion would if it didn't require multi-billion investments.
But all articles that talk about it say that it has some real world applications (medical scanners are almost always mentioned), which is why I'm wondering about that.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@remi big, whopping electro-magnets?
Yes, but why? (apart from )
I mean, not why are big magnets needed for stuff that has "magnetic" in its name (duh), but why supraconduction is good for big magnets?
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@remi said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
@remi big, whopping electro-magnets?
Yes, but why? (apart from )
I mean, not why are big magnets needed for stuff that has "magnetic" in its name (duh), but why supraconduction is good for big magnets?
I'm not really knowledgable at all about this, but from what I understand, the resistance in non-superconducting ones converts lots of energy into waste heat, which in turn increases the resistance further, so you need a lot of cooling to keep the thing from breaking down.
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@topspin I don't know if this is true, but that makes sense. Thanks.
( a larger magnetic field requires a higher electric one i.e. more voltage i.e. more resistance, unless the intensity is also boosted but that would just increase the overall energy consumption which I suppose some way or another would end up as heat anyway)
If this is the case then I guess a lot of other applications might benefit from it (basically anywhere there is a high (unwanted) resistance) but I further guess that in most of those places cooling to what supraconductors currently require is not feasible. But that would mean that if room-temperature (and pressure) supraconductors truly ever become a thing (before or after fusion?
:sarcmark:
) then there would possibly be many more use cases than currently.
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@remi said in In other news today...:
I mean, not why are big magnets needed for stuff that has "magnetic" in its name (duh), but why supraconduction is good for big magnets?
Because big magnets means electromagents, where the magnetic field is created by current flowing. And to get the magnetic field strengths e.g. the MRI needs, the current needs to be huge.
Now in MRI the magnetic field does not do much work, so it does not intrinsically require much power, but since it depends on current, and power wasted to resistance is proportional to the current squared, a non-superconducting coil for MRI would take a huge amount of energy and then it would promptly melt anyway. My understanding is that MRI is effectively impossible without superconducting magnets.
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It's more than just medical devices.
- One of the big barriers to fusion power generation has been getting powerful enough electromagnets to work.
- The way your phone heats up when you try to do anything interesting on it? Electrical resistivity.
- Billions of dollars are lost each year in resistivity over power line transmission.
- Quantum computers use superconductors to maintain coherence.
Basically, if this turns out to be legitimate, it could revolutionize not just electronics but electricity itself!
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
Expect the next one soon:
I was reading the paper; it appears to be a relatively simple material to make in the lab (if you have a temperature-controlled furnace and a decent vacuum system) as it's starting materials aren't very exotic. Expect either a reproduction of the experiment or a bunch of denials that it could possibly be true soon.
It's definitely not an AI-written paper. The language use is slightly too awkward in places.
Yeah, here's everyone's favorite chemist's take:
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/breaking-superconductor-news